DISTORTION
Photography is an art form so the aim of this project is to help you become very creative during the post production process. As you may have guessed, distortion is all about distorting your photography.
You will take a series of portraits and distort them through a series of simple tasks. The aim here is for you to use your imagination and take a creative approach to this topic. You will learn some photoshop techniques to help you enhance your images.
You will produce a web page displaying evidence of research, at least 50 photographs, post production and a final portfolio of your 10 best photographs
Photography is an art form so the aim of this project is to help you become very creative during the post production process. As you may have guessed, distortion is all about distorting your photography.
You will take a series of portraits and distort them through a series of simple tasks. The aim here is for you to use your imagination and take a creative approach to this topic. You will learn some photoshop techniques to help you enhance your images.
You will produce a web page displaying evidence of research, at least 50 photographs, post production and a final portfolio of your 10 best photographs
What is distortion?
Distortion is a picture that you have taken and destroyed it. Distortion you destroy it, rip, tear or crumple to make a picture. to me it's a fun lesson that i've done so far and it's not hard to do.
Research
Task 01: Crumple
Working in pairs take several portrait shots of each other. Upload the photographs to your mac and decide on the one you want to work on and print it out so that it fills an A4 piece of paper.
Working in pairs take several portrait shots of each other. Upload the photographs to your mac and decide on the one you want to work on and print it out so that it fills an A4 piece of paper.
- I taken a photograph of a pupil in the classroom
- After i've taken the image I then uploaded it to the computer and then printed it.
- When I got the image from the printer, then I crumple the image to make an different one.
- I then got my camera to take more photographs of the image.
- After I got some pictures, I uploaded it to the computer so I could Photoshop it.
- The photos i've taken are below the steps I did.
What do you like about them?
I like these images because some of the images have people with their face messed around and looks really good the the way did it. Some of the photos are of me, and they where taken by my teacher because i didn't have my camera. I've crumple the image to make it look different and then folded the image.
what ideas have you gained from this?
The ideas i've gotten from this is to get the person am going to work with i'll get them to change their face to make it look distorted.
I like these images because some of the images have people with their face messed around and looks really good the the way did it. Some of the photos are of me, and they where taken by my teacher because i didn't have my camera. I've crumple the image to make it look different and then folded the image.
what ideas have you gained from this?
The ideas i've gotten from this is to get the person am going to work with i'll get them to change their face to make it look distorted.
Surreal
Surreal to me is something that is supernatural and it's nightmare face that can be put in a image.
Simple Surreal Portrait Using Masks
- Take a photo of yourself and upload it to your computer.
- Open PhotoShop and open the image you have taken.
- First you want to press the layer icon and choose Black and White.
- Click anywhere on the Black and White adjustment layer to bring up it's options. These colours relate to the colours in your photography.
- Press the Adjustment layer icon and choose colour. Choose Black. Move this layer underneath your Portrait layer. If the Portrait layer has a padlock on it then double click on it, type in Portrait and click ok.
- Make sure your on the Portrait layer. Press the Mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette.
- After you have done that, you have to press B to choose the Paintbrush. there should be a drop down arrow beside the Paintbrush. Make sure it's a soft brush.
- The portrait is starting to take on a Surreal quality now.
- Click on the Adjustment Layer icon and add another black colour fill. Drag this layer so that it is at the top of the layer stack. All you should see is black.
- Click on the Mask rectangle on the layer to select it.
- Now choose B to once again select the Paintbrush Tool. Use the Bracket Keys () to choose a large brush. It has to be a bit smaller the your eye.
- Make sure the foreground colour is Black and click once in the middle of the screen. Make sure you get the right Shadow Effect. If not try again.
- If yours look similar to mine at the bottom, then you can save it.
- Save your Surreal image as a PSD and after you have done that. save it as a JPG.
- Before saving it on your computer, set to quality to maximum.
- To find your image faster, create a folder on your Desktop and save your image there.
Surreal research
I like these images because they are:
- All these images are portraits that are mixed with other objects.
- All these photographs are dark & weird.
- The photographs have different objects.
- some of these photographs have different objects coming out of them.
- These images make me feel horrified because the way they look.
- They make me feel confused because the way they have made it look.
- It looks hard to create in photoshop.
How I can do the same in the image.
In this image, the photographer has made it look like the apple has eaten him. The apple he is holding has a mouth with teeth and a tung. the person the this image looks like he has been eaten like he is the apple. his body on both sides has been made to look like the inside of an apple. The photographer has made this image very creative, the way the man is holding an apple but instead of him eating the apple, the apple has eaten him.